After a tense and slightly inebriated evening of watching NASA TV , I am pleased to report : NASA’sCuriosityrover has down .
In Portland , Oregon , my fiancée and I followed along on NASA TV , teem the reporting on a telephone set beaming video to our TV , determine as it cast off out periodically and displayed adorable greenmacroblocking , and experience tense while waiting throughCuriosity’sseven minutes of terror . We ate peanuts at the appropriate time to wishCuriositygood lot . And it function .
This post will be updated as our solemnisation proceed .
Update , 10:37pm PDT :
Mission Control at JPL is a circus . On - air observer is choking up a bit . The first 256px thumbnail has arrived , demonstrate a wheel of the scouter throw up a shadow on Mars . " I ca n’t believe this ! This is unbelievable ! "
Update , 10:42pm PDT : JPL control condition are now all standing , no longer go to their post . One team member exclaim " Holy s**t ! " and another , " We ’ve done it again ! " Also : " If anybody in the MSA is listening , you should check out our current position on our flythrough . … You should watch this flight . " I doubt anyone at JPL is paying attention to their headsets any longer .
Update , 10:46pm PDT : JPL ascendance inverted comma as hear through the unruly cackle : " Eightyearsof attention ! " and " We ’re on Mars again!“Charlie Bolden , NASA Administrator : " To pick up the shout come , read everything was all correct – it was unbelievable . … Everyone in the morning should be stick to their breast out , suppose ' That’smyrover ! ' "
Update , 10:50pm PDT : A historically pregnant tweet :
A few thumbnails fromCuriosity :
Update , 10:57pm PDT : NASA boob tube server mentions that thumbnails are available fromnasa.gov , despite crushing traffic . They are not . Twitter ’s figure military service is holding up better . Meanwhile : " We ’re front for going again to Mars … and to Europa . " -Dr . Charles Elachi . Apparently no respect for2010 ’s warning"ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS – EXCEPT EUROPA . seek NO LANDINGS THERE.“Eh , Roy Scheiderwill ( did ? ) sort that out .
Update , 11:16pm PDT : Still waiting for the JPL press league , and the first awesome Twitter gag has arisen : The Yip Yips are real . )
Update , 11:25pm PDT : The JPL insistence conferencehas begun . Lots of hootin ' and hollerin ' in the way . First input from a scientist : " About an hr ago I front outdoors , and I depend to the west [ at Mars ] , and I said ' You ’re hold up to have a visitor . ' " Charlie Bolden then proceeds to thank our Australian friends in theDeep Space Networkfor receiving signal and relaying them to the States . He proceeds to note that we now have four successful US landings on Mars , but turn away to name the other " four countries " that are on Mars along with the US . " Our leaders is gon na make the world better , " Bolden says . He says : " Today ’s landing place marks a important step towards reach that goal [ of set ashore humans ] on Mars . " If you ’re not keep an eye on this live , melody in now .
Update , 11:30pm PDT : The press league retain with various consultation to American dedication to astronauts on Mars . Your humble blogger curiosity whether he ’ll be able to provide hot coverage of humans on Mars within the next few administrations . Outlook : woefully doubtful .
Update , 11:33pm PDT : The press conference has become a true - up company . No one is speaking from the microscope stage , everyone is high - fiving . Elachi periodically attempts to recover control .
Update , 11:37pm PDT : After about five minutes examine to get the room to shut up , Elachi say : " I just was talking to my daughter , and she was holler about how exciting this was – how inspirational . " Also : " What a bargain ! This be you – this film be you less than seven bucks per American , and look at what fervour we ’ve ply you . " ( Thunderous applause . Blogger bank bill : I ’ve seen other estimates stating that the cost is more like four bucks per somebody . )
Update , 11:57pm PDT : Ca n’t dissent updating for this last scrap : Xeni JardinofBoingBoingasks about the ikon format and compression coming back from the roamer , and Steltzner has no idea on the details .
Thus ends your one - valet squad insurance coverage for tonight . I ’m sure by Monday good morning when ( most of you ) record this , we ’ll have well images and more analytic thinking of the landing place . Good night , people of Earth and rover of Mars !
Update , the next day , 8:10am PDT : The Atlanticputs Flight Director Ferdowsi ’s mohawk in linguistic context . It ’s a terrific read , andthe human is on Twitter .
